Lidia Verdugo, Bertha Mendoza and Hernandez, all Mexican Americans, lived in the community for two decades. Hernandez began ...

Guillermo Mendoza can still remember the last phone call he received from his mother, Bertha, in the morning hours of Sept.

Bertha Mendoza, 56, had just celebrated her birthday a week before Hurricane Helene floodwaters swept her away in Erwin, ...

Or if. His friend who died on the sweet potato farm was Jose Arturo Gonzalez Mendoza. It was Mendoza’s first trip to the US for work. He died within his first few weeks on the farm in September ...